Dan Hynes

Looking to dampen African-American support for Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn at the ballot box, Republican challenger Bruce Rauner on Wednesday unveiled a new radio and TV ad featuring the late Chicago Mayor Harold Washington criticizing Quinn’s job performance at City Hall. “Pat Quinn is a totally and completely undisciplined individual who thinks this government is nothing but a large easel on which to do his PR work,” Washington says in the ad that uses footage taken from a 1987 interview about two weeks before the former mayor’s death. “He was dismissed. He should’ve been dismissed,” said Washington, the city’s first black mayor, who...

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